Julian Assange's 'Ghostwriter' Eviscerates The WikiLeaks Founder In Crushing Tell-Allhttp://www.businessinsider.com/assanges-ghostwriter-tears-him-apart-2014-2/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:44:54 -0500Michael B Kelleyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/530bceb569bedd707ccfb61aJust A GuyMon, 24 Feb 2014 17:59:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530bceb569bedd707ccfb61a
Excellent! Anything that tears that cretin Assange apart is good.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ba207eab8eabe38f51774EmmaGoldsteinMon, 24 Feb 2014 14:48:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ba207eab8eabe38f51774
O’Hagan says he promised his publisher he would not give interviews or talk about the Assange project. He knew, he says, the biography would “walk the unstable border between fiction and non-fiction.”
Now O’Hagan writes:
“One day recently (Assange) asked me to come in to talk to him...I could see he was disturbed...
‘I’ve received some intelligence...you’re preparing a book,’ he said... ‘(Y)ou’re going to talk about visiting me here in the middle of the night.’
I told him I’d made no plans to write a book...
‘Just tell me first if you’re going to,’ he said. ‘Come to me first.’
I said I would....I left that night (knowing)...I was now making him into a figment of my imagination...that was perhaps all he could ever really be for me.”
Does “Ghosting” walk the unstable border between fiction and non-fiction?
Is the character we are reading about a figment of Mr. O’Hagan’s imagination?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b867cecad041353920fe5kellydorsey8Mon, 24 Feb 2014 12:50:52 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b867cecad041353920fe5
Why do people condemn the truthful messenger?
Assange dumped everything - leaving himself vulnerable. Snowden didn't.
Since the week after Snowden's 1st statements, early LAST YEAR, ~all our involved officials, public and private, are proven documented unconstitutional felons and liars - often in their own hand and testimony for DECADES before Congress.
The NSA has floated "he's brilliant, he's dumb, an enemy, with a few thousand documents, with a few million, prospering, hiding under blankets, .." and more lies to come battling to escape their totalitarian accountability and the punishment they are due.
Shifting blame to and making despicable the messenger is the name of the NSA game, while they pay themselves more and more.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b3e6869beddfd575fdb4cSizzler944Mon, 24 Feb 2014 07:43:20 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b3e6869beddfd575fdb4c
Considering what global security services can do to a whislte blower's life, the person taking the risk of being the public face of the whistle blower's platform, was always going to be way out there. I wouldn't do it.
Looking at the impact of Bradley Manning and Snowden's revelations on corporate and govt actions and policy, there is more honesty and realism. The US stayed out of Syria because of the public knowledge arising from these revelations.
Because of Snowden we now know every state and corporation with the ability to conduct algo intel is bulk data collecting. Indeed it,s the business model of Google, Facebook, etc.
Espionage is a precision game. Algo intel has politicians who know nothing of computing, convinced that it enhances precision. All I can say is I'm concerned at the extraordinary numbers of children and civillians killed by drone strikes. It doesn't seem precise to me. I judge collateral damage to be indicative of sloppy work and poor capability.
There is a bigger problem. Policy decisions are now algo driven. It doesn't matter if google algos target an ad at the wrong person. It doesn't matter that trading house algos are repeatedly creating momentary flash crashes and jumps.
What does matter is that govt is making big decisions based on algos. However attractive it may be to think an algos myriad of assumptions are all right and fully represent reality, they don't and we get policy bereft of common sense that leads to unwelcome outcomes.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b22466da81139798ff212JG66Mon, 24 Feb 2014 05:43:18 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b22466da81139798ff212
Ying & Yang.
NSA , GCHQ & Assange are the perfect antithesis of one another.
One side seeks to keep all they know about us in society, whereas the other wants to it totally exposed at any price.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b204169bedd2e615fdb4cDoug in VirginiaMon, 24 Feb 2014 05:34:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b204169bedd2e615fdb4c
So nothing supportive since June.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b02b9ecad04d80ae23239oak111Mon, 24 Feb 2014 03:28:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530b02b9ecad04d80ae23239
I would not be surprised by the unflattering description of Assange. BUT:
"Just as we are spying on other countries, they are doing the same." You are certainly right. Nevertheless, if you 1) spy on your friends, you loose credibility, and 2) they seem to spy essentially on everybody, INCLUDING Americans, outside and inside of the US. Such large power can be used, but also abused. Just remember Edgar Hoover's transgressions as an example.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530af085eab8eafd2be23242Chris ChristieeheeheeMon, 24 Feb 2014 02:11:01 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530af085eab8eafd2be23242
whatever do you mean?http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530aef09eab8ea9e2be23235ybfmiamiMon, 24 Feb 2014 02:04:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530aef09eab8ea9e2be23235
Why is it news that Assange is a narcissitic A**hole? Just like his pal, the traitor Snowden.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530acbe9eab8ea6137e23233Roger C.Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:34:49 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530acbe9eab8ea6137e23233
Actually, I think they just bought him some Wahl clippers from Wal-Mart.
He really is the houseguest from hell.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530aca566da811747ae51f80I will turn the crankSun, 23 Feb 2014 23:28:06 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530aca566da811747ae51f80
Assange and Snowden should be tossed into a sausage-making machine.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab635eab8eaef60e23233voiceofreasonSun, 23 Feb 2014 22:02:13 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab635eab8eaef60e23233
"O'Hagan, who is actually quite sympathetic to Assange."
FALSE. O'Hagan joins the list of opportunists who've tried to extend their 15 minutes by feeding Assange attacks to a greedy establishment media.
Is Assange paranoid? He should be. Does he take himself and his goals very seriously? He should. I'm sure that could get old quickly if you are around him in person, but one the most powerful state in the world (among many others) are hellbent on your destruction and when your pet project has forever altered the battle between freedom and authoritarianism, then yeah you deserve some slack.
Especially if you've spent the last few years trapped in a room because of a charge over a broken condom.
Meanwhile, many more collaborators of Assange have only good things to say about him. But they don't get paid to write mainstream media articles.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab46369bedd1d4a2c6d25It is you who are asleepSun, 23 Feb 2014 21:54:27 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab46369bedd1d4a2c6d25
"The world is not a nice place." - quite right. But it is the U.S. that is particularly bad, in a very sneaky way.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab40e6da811cf1ae51f80You just destroyed any chance...Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:53:02 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab40e6da811cf1ae51f80
...of any trust.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab34d6da8110512e51f80kellydorsey8Sun, 23 Feb 2014 21:49:49 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530ab34d6da8110512e51f80
Through decades of hard work and technical ability, Mr. Assange has exposed more facts than some entire recent US administrations. Perhaps 1% of the article noted this.
The WikiLeaked <a href="http://www.collateralmurder.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.collateralmurder.com/</a> certainly displays a series of unprosecuted deaths and it is unknown if this gun footage is/was just daily standard operating procedure.
It is interesting that as an 'innocent until proven guilty' Assange approaches years in an embassy and his paranoia is implied.
Perhaps the first draft of this article and ghost link will appear in a future Snowden released NSA document.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530aa769eab8ea7f28e2323bFactualThinkingSun, 23 Feb 2014 20:59:05 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530aa769eab8ea7f28e2323b
All men seek greatness to gain access to sex. Once, in a blue moon, great men have humble motivations. But civilization would be the worse, if it demanded only humility.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9b766bb3f7807be23236ngg74Sun, 23 Feb 2014 20:08:06 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9b766bb3f7807be23236
The internet is so full of propaganda for one side or another I simply don't know what to believe. Though in my eyes Assange has always looked like an epic tool.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9977ecad043f21e23233mikej77Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:59:35 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9977ecad043f21e23233
Assange and Snowden are 2013 - this is Feb. 23, 2014. Let's just drop them and rummage around for some other political celebrities. These guys are *dead* in terms of agitational value.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9900ecad04181ae23237WhatSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:57:36 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9900ecad04181ae23237
It is irrelevant noting the world is not a nice place. As a being born on this Earth, I should not have to worry about anyone spying on me, or anyone else for that matter. No one has that right. By your logic and theirs, we should be able to spy on the higher officials, but of course they would have issues with that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a98d06da811921be51f80The PartnerSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:56:48 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a98d06da811921be51f80
Alex Jones' followers are not under 35. They are probably close to over 40, blue collar, pissed, and tired of police, regulators, tax authorities and politicians pissing down stream of them. Anyone to point the finger at any of these people and call them narcissistic or sociopaths while simultaneously voting for people like Obama and Bush are hugely hypocritical and completely blind to their own ignorance.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a979a69bedd40652c6d23Typical BI propagandaSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:51:38 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a979a69bedd40652c6d23
Fair enough. I've read a lot of anti-Snowden stuff on here that seemed unsubstantiated. Point taken, though.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a95f9eab8ea1c74e23239Anti antiSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:44:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a95f9eab8ea1c74e23239
I don't think BI is really anti snowden. Snowden is another coward who has damaged the US. Little kids like you need to wake up. The world is not a nice place. Just as we are spying on other countries, they are doing the same. You young morons think everyone is like Mr. Rogers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a957decad046f11e23238Value?Sun, 23 Feb 2014 19:42:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a957decad046f11e23238
Trust me, assange has added no value. He has destroyed much more than caused the USA to gain.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a950eeab8eab76ce23236CreepSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:40:46 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a950eeab8eab76ce23236
Assange is a creep and so are guys like Alex Jones, who peddle fear and conspiracy. They use young people to advance their junk agenda. Their conspiracies never pan out. Never.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9185eab8ea3862e23236AtroposSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:25:41 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a9185eab8ea3862e23236
Regardless of who he is, Julian Assange is someone with courage far beyond those of us that labor through each day ignorant of the powerful elites that manipulate every aspect of our lives. He is a disruptor of the the mechanics of our present day governments who watch and strategically coordinate the information flow that emanates from each of our families.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a907a69bedd5d492c6d23Michael KelleySun, 23 Feb 2014 19:21:14 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a907a69bedd5d492c6d23
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-nsa-can-target-anyone-2013-6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.businessinsider.com/edward-snowden-nsa-can-target-anyone-2013-6</a>
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-snowden-can-avoid-prosecution-2013-6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.businessinsider.com/how-snowden-can-avoid-prosecution-2013-6</a>
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/everybody-is-right-about-edward-snowden-2013-6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.businessinsider.com/everybody-is-right-about-edward-snowden-2013-6</a>http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8ece69beddbe422c6d25billybob.merkowitzSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:14:06 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8ece69beddbe422c6d25
It appears that they can't get a barber or stylist into the embassy, so he cuts his own hair with children's scissors.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8db369beddbe382c6d25Typical BI propagandaSun, 23 Feb 2014 19:09:23 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8db369beddbe382c6d25
BI has been anti-Snowden since day one, an obvious appendage of the establishment machine, and this article is just in line with that narrative.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8c1d6bb3f7014ce23233IPkeySun, 23 Feb 2014 19:02:37 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8c1d6bb3f7014ce23233
It's an incredible read.
How many kids has Assange fathered?
What are the full details of the 1.3 million Al-Jazeera deal mentioned?
There are a ton of curious points in the very good long form read.
But its obvious Assange and Wikileaks are done. Now the leak business will be in the hands of Americans Greenwald and Omidyar, I expect big Russia and China leaks in about 2-3 years once cred has been built using the Americans as bad guys.
Ah new media, propaganda tool of the 21st century.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8ac86da8118c5ae51f88amusedSun, 23 Feb 2014 18:56:56 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8ac86da8118c5ae51f88
The image and the man remind me of Jim Jones.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a89936bb3f77643e23233Once againSun, 23 Feb 2014 18:51:47 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a89936bb3f77643e23233
It's the message. Regardless of how good or bad his character is, the work he has done is extremely valuable.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8796ecad043963e23239Roger C.Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:43:18 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a8796ecad043963e23239
Is Assange going to live in Ecuador's embassy forever? I can't imagine they're too pleased about that.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a850a69bedd60162c6d28Closet Republican too?Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:32:26 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a850a69bedd60162c6d28
It is the party for sociopaths.......http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a82cf69bedd790c2c6d29WolferlSun, 23 Feb 2014 18:22:55 -0500http://www.businessinsider.com/c/530a82cf69bedd790c2c6d29
Assange is a sociopath. So, where´s the news?